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Don't get too excited...this is a picture of a picture.  This is the Gorsuch family quilt.  What do you do when you are disconnected from your quilt cave and your stash?  You dream, scheme, and plan about projects to start when you are reconnected...this usually involves spending a little money... I ordered this pattern from Margo E. Hardie from the land down under.  Here is her home page .  Her email is quiltsbeautifulpatterns@yahoo.com.  She does mail to the United States.  I am so grateful for her time-consuming reproduction of this amazing quilt! I have always loved this quilt...the Gorsuch family owned the quilt, but it is not certain who made it.  Many of the blocks are similar to blocks made or designed by Mary Simon at that time in history. Many people may have contributed blocks, or maybe they were all stitched by one person. I want to make this quilt...or one similar to it, but one thing has always bugged me about it...the blocks are all...

Life after two weekends of garage sales included a week in the sunny south, off-loading the first POD in NW Alabama.  It was nearly 100 degrees the 2 days it took me to unload the contents into the RV garage my Dad built.  Stuff will stay there until we can move it into the house. The truck could not come in the main gate to take the half mile driveway through the woods, around the corners, and across the little bridge to the house due to size and weight, so he came and went on the unpaved service road.  All is well with that as long as the weather stays dry! It arrived on Wednesday and was to leave on Friday, so I could not wait for the weather to get cooler.  Time to dig in and get started! This is how it looked after the first layer was peeled away and hauled into the garage.  Nothing got broken, so I am very pleased with my PODS experience. I was even able to bring the design wall pieces I had made recently...they floated along on top of everything just fine...

Thank you to everyone who came to our big quilter/crafter garage sale...or wished us well from afar, while drooling!  We were a little slower on Saturday than Friday...there were several whole subdivision sales in the area with which to compete .    Ola and Mary were taking a little time to consolidate our many tubs of packaged fabric bundles, so I tried to take a picture of them. Ouch!  That wasn't very nice!  (hee-hee-hee) We donated the remaining fabric this morning to a church group in the area that is very active in making charity quilts for many local groups.  We still have lots of books and patterns, some of Mary's beautiful finished wall hangings and table runners, and some notions, Barbies and Breyer horses to blend with the furniture and additional household stuff we are selling in this weekend's sub-wide garage sale, .   This weekend will be our big moving sale.  Then we will be camping out in our house after another, smaller POD is fil...

Even though we don't have everything in place yet, I thought I would give you a sneaky-peeky of how things are progressing concerning our BIG SALE on Friday and Saturday. There are still a lot of things in my basement, so tomorrow will be a busy day! We learned a lot of things 18 months ago when the three of us did this the first time.  Most important...there needs to be enough room for quilting ladies to move around in the garage without having to get too close...it is said that Midwest people like a little "personal space" around them.  All the fabric tubs will be out in the driveway on tables, also with plenty of room to move around.   Mary is selling some of her beautiful, FINISHED wall hangings and table runners.  There are more, folded on the tables beneath the grid wall. Secondly, we learned that quilters love a bargain.  So, again, everything is priced to MOVE!  We have 17 containers of books alone, priced from 50 cents to $2 with most costing $1...

The 2nd Almost Annual Quilter's Garage Sale is next weekend! When it comes to quilting, it is certainly true that one person's "no longer interested" is another person's "new favorite thing!" Come and see what Ola, Mary and I are no longer interested in! My garage is starting to bulge as the three of us quilting squirrels are beginning to stash our discarded nuts in there, getting ready for the sale.  ITEMS PRICED TO MOVE! WHEN:  Friday & Saturday, June 5 & 6 TIME:  9:00 AM to 4:00 PM each day PLACE:  7122 Lochmoor Dr, Ypsilanti, MI, 48197 As I will be moving, it will also be the beginning of a moving sale which will continue to the NEXT Friday and Saturday when our whole subdivision will be having a sale. There most likely be no quilty stuff left the second weekend, if it all goes like it did the last time we did this! We will have: quilting fabric quilting scraps quilting books and patterns quilt kits quilt tops (just add quilting!) quilt han...

As we prepare for our move and new home, Weasley needs to do the same thing...but, sadly, not with us. We will be caretakers of our new home and family will be there often...some of my family have very bad cat allergies, so we will not be able to have an indoor pet.  He has no front claws, so becoming an outdoor kitty is out of the question. (Here he is, hogging the heat vent under the kitchen sink...).  We are very sad about this, but there is nothing we can do about it. Losing him will be one of the hardest things about our move. (He is a big supporter of napping...anywhere or on anyone...)  He does not like car rides, so the 12-hour trip south would be more than he can take. So, if anyone out there within an hour or so of Ypsilanti, Michigan would like a constant quilting companion, do I have the cat for you! He will be nine years old on July 4th (he is a Yankee-Doodle-Dandy!). He's only ever been around one other cat...only briefly.  We invited a kitty in (who us...